Myths About Misconceptions Diabetes

Of all the major chronic diseases that affect Americans, diabetes, which many people erroneously call “sugar diabetes” seems to be the one most surrounded by myth and misinformation. Following are some of the mistakes that people make abut it, followed by the actual facts about the disease.
.Diabetes is contagious. No, it isn’t. You probably inherited a genetic tendency to become diabetic, and may pass it on to you children, but you didn’t catch it, or can you give it to others.
.You get diabetes from eating too much sugar. No, you don’t sugar itself does not cause the disease, although it certainly has an effect on blood glucose levels.
.The medications you doctor gives you will cure the diabetes. No, they won’t. Research scientist are hard at work on a cure, but one has not yet been found. Blood glucose levels can be controlled and brought to near-normal levels with diet, exercise, and medications, but the disease itself is not cured.
.The disease will go away by itself eventually. No, it won’t. Even if you have no symptoms and with Type 2 diabetes , you may not have had even when you were diagnosed, you still have diabetes, and you still need to work at controlling it and even when your symptoms disappear become your diabetes is well-controlled, you still have the disease.